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Agiloft ITSM ITIL Service Desk Suite vs Clarity SM comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Agiloft ITSM ITIL Service D...
Ranking in IT Service Management (ITSM)
36th
Average Rating
10.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Clarity SM
Ranking in IT Service Management (ITSM)
21st
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
107
Ranking in other categories
Help Desk Software (22nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the IT Service Management (ITSM) category, the mindshare of Agiloft ITSM ITIL Service Desk Suite is 0.9%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Clarity SM is 1.7%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Service Management (ITSM) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Clarity SM1.7%
Agiloft ITSM ITIL Service Desk Suite0.9%
Other97.4%
IT Service Management (ITSM)
 

Featured Reviews

it_user536637 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead IT Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
We use it for handling requests. It has reduced the IT staff required.
Handling requests - Technical service requests: hardware, software not working - Account requests: new/modify account requests to various systems - Software requests: of all types from our staff - IT related assets: hardware controlled by IT - All types of technical abuse complaints: ie copyright - Surveys about the follow-through of the staff to requests entered in the system
Türker Kara - PeerSpot reviewer
Application & Software Architect at Turkiye Finans Participation Bank
Quite good back-end architecture for end users but the API is very, very bad
Our company uses the solution for system, program, service request, change, and knowledge-based management.  We perform CMD authorizations and use a lot of integrations for our in-house or third-party applications. We also use Salesforce automations and Microsoft orchestrations.  We have about…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"We were able to reduce the IT staff from 4 to 1.5 FTE, to handle the 2500/monthly requests."
"The major improvement in functions is their ability to track, report incidents, problem, changes and configuration management."
"The most valuable feature is the usability of the search when you want to find other tickets that relate to the incident you're working on."
"It has a good GUI interface."
"The most valuable features of this product are security, scalability and the possibilities for customization."
"The process automation component is incredibly valuable, as it cuts down on the workload of teams, organizational and clerical work, and allows employees to be more efficient."
"The integration between the ticketing and knowledge is huge, because that is a best practice. The knowledge is great. It is simple but efficient, and it works.​"
"Before Service Desk, we were kind of flying a bit blind internally, but with it, we're still in the honeymoon phase and it has provided us many, if not all, of the tools that we're looking to use and implement in our system."
"Customer Service: High. Collaborates with gains in maturity."
 

Cons

"The GUI looks a little dated."
"Ticket event and notification creation and management is cumbersome and has not improved over the many versions I have worked with."
"Mobility is one area: There should be improvements in terms of implementations and content."
"When I am reviewing an incident, sometimes there is too much information on the same screen and it is difficult to discern what is of value."
"The initial setup can be complex, especially if you want to track and notify on a variety of granular controls. However, the vendor oversells how easy it is and the training from CA is terrible."
"They need to improve the High Availability, and the native integration between CA Service Desk Manager, CA Process Automation, CA Service Catalog and CA Unified Self-Service."
"The monitoring tool is in need of improvement."
"The interface for the users is a bit old-fashioned and not user-friendly."
"Nowadays every person is used to an interface that is more user-friendly and this one is not so user-friendly maybe due to the fact that, if you need to let people customize everything, sometimes you lose out on a clean user experience."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The solution is quite reasonable compared to other solutions in the market."
"Clarity offers a perpetual license. Customers purchase the license once and then pay for maintenance. CA provides a subscription model as well. Both models are available for our customers."
"It is a bit expensive, but you definitely get what you pay for. It is worth it!"
"I think pricing of this model is suitable for growing corporations."
"I don't see anyone other than large companies being able to afford this system."
"Pricing is simple, as it’s per concurrent analysts."
"There is a subscripted needed to use Clarity SM. The price of the solution could be less expensive. ServiceNow is less expensive and BMC Helix is priced similar to Clarity SM."
"The pricing is based on a subscription model."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Financial Services Firm
30%
Marketing Services Firm
8%
Construction Company
6%
Manufacturing Company
5%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise15
Large Enterprise66
 

Also Known As

Agiloft ITSM/ITIL Service Desk Suite, Agiloft IT Service Management
CA Service Desk Manager, Clarity Service Management, CA Service Management, Unicenter Service Desk, CA SDM, CA Service Catalog, CA Business Service Insight
 

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Sample Customers

Affinity Development Group, ArcaTech Systems, Carestream Health, CareView Communications, Chester County, Chevron Corporation, Conde Nast, CSF International, DCG Systems, East Virginia Medical School, EMC, Hopkins County Board of Education, Hot Topic Media, Lattice Semiconductor, Lexnet Consulting Group
Banco G&T Continental City of Perth, FEMSA, Fujitsu, Manpower, Muslim Commercial Bank - MCB, Punjab National Bank, Santa Clara County Social Services, Stefanini
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